The high-blazing flame is the middle way, whose luminous course runs between the human and the divine. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
Insofar as it is the manner of the gods to go beyond mortals, they become paralyzed, and become as helpless as children. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
There is a misunderstanding that occurs all too frequently and is almost ineradicable: Men always want to destroy the beautiful and much loved outside of themselves, but never within themselves. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
Some have their reason in thinking, others in feeling. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
We spread poison and paralysis around us in that we want to educate all the world around us into reason. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
Hurrying becomes impossible, patience grows. - LS, p. 41 #CGJung
Power must subside for the sake of life. - LS, p. 41 #CGJung
No longer do outer opposites stand in my way, but my own opposite comes toward me, and rises up hugely before me, and we block each other's way. - LS, p. 41 #CGJung
That which hurries toward the rising is small, that which approaches the descent is great. - LS, p. 41 #CGJung
Once I realize this, I remain silent and think of the chasm of antagonism in my soul. - LS, p. 40 #CGJung
The outer opposition is an image of my inner opposition. - LS, p. 40 #CGJung
Whatever I reject is nevertheless in my nature. - LS, p. 40 #CGJung
Science has taken from us the capacity of belief. - LS, p. 39 #CGJung
Are there then two sorts of truth? - LS, p. 38 #CGJung
The disaster has already happened. - LS, p. 38 #CGJung
What you call poison is science. In our country we are nurtured on it from youth, and that may be one reason why we haven't properly flourished and remain so dwarfish. - LS, p. 38 #CGJung
I see blue horizons before me: they suffice as a goal. - LS, p. 35 #CGJung
On this way, no one walks behind me, and I cross no one's path. I am alone, but I fill my solitariness with my life. I am man enough, I am noise, conversation, comfort, and help enough unto myself. - LS, p. 35 #CGJung
Henceforth I am completely alone. I can no longer say to you "Listen!" or "you should," or "you could," but now I talk only with myself. - LS, p. 35 #CGJung
The quarreling powers that for so long stood between me and myself lie behind me. - LS, p. 35 #CGJung
From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
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